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Development tools for Adobe Flex/AIR?

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I'm starting a new development position with a company that implements many of its products in Adobe Flex. What tools should I look to install (Ubuntu Linux options prefered) for Flex development?

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Peter Bratton Avatar asked Apr 29 '09 18:04

Peter Bratton


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As dirkgently said, installing Flex Builder 3 in Linux is a great way to get going. It's quick and easy to get up and running, and since it's based on Eclipse, the overall environment is decent.

That said, I was able to put together a decent Flex-building environment using Emacs and some third-party packages to get everything running under Linux.

Here's a quick rundown of what I used (this isn't comprehensive--just what I can remember):

  • Flex 3 SDK for Linux
  • actionscript-mode.el for AS code highlighting
  • nxml bundle for MXML code highlighting
  • ani-fcsh.el for running fcsh from Emacs
  • ECB for code browsing in Emacs
  • snippet.el for creating code templates in Emacs

This link was also helpful for getting started. It links to this article which talks about putting together a Flex development environment in Linux. I was able to put together some shell scripts for compiling and running applications.

Note: I didn't do any debugging, though Adobe has some info about it.

Note #2: If you decide to use Flex Builder, it will install the Flash Player 9 debugger version in your browser (you can tell it not to). I would recommend installing version 10's debugger. The builder will output a warning about not supporting the version, but everything else appears to work.

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bedwyr Avatar answered Sep 28 '22 12:09

bedwyr